Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, ju...
A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.
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How Amy Coney Barrett is Already Making a Mark ...
Plus Michigan’s secretary of state and the real bellwethers for defending democracy.
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Trump’s Pardonpalooza
Amnesty and clemency under an unprecedented president.
55 min
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“How Does This End Well?”
Stumbling in courtrooms and sweating in press conferences, Trump’s election fraud fever dream spreads.
57 min
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Empty Suits
Do Trump’s lawyers have the goods?
51 min
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The Canaries in the Coal Mine of Justice
Sherrilyn Ifill on the early warnings the legal establishment ignored.
64 min
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The American Contest
Historical context for the conservative project to capture the courts.
48 min
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The Litmus Test
What hostility to abortion rights really predicts.
46 min
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What Progressives Got Wrong About the Judiciary
Politics, power, and the Supreme Court.
65 min
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Testing the Election
Votes are already being cast. Will chaos be the winner?
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The Senate Judiciary Committee and Boxing Kanga...
Dahlia Lithwick, Elie Mystal, and Mark Joseph Stern on girding for a fight and choosing your battles.
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Quiet Words That Remain
The cases, opinions, and dissents you may have missed from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s decades in court.
38 min
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A Conversation about Conversations with RBG
Dahlia Lithwick and Jeff Rosen on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s jurisprudence—and her character.
65 min
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An Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dahlia Lithwick’s complete January interview with Justice Ginsburg about her time at Harvard Law School--and about her fellow female classmates.
43 min
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Bill Barr’s American Carnage
The attorney general is not just a Trump enabler, he has his own agenda.
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Dozens of Baby Bush v Gores
The new fronts of voting rights battles.
62 min
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Behind the Scenes of "The Class of RBG"
Working's June Thomas talks with Dahlia Lithwick and Molly Olmstead about the project.
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An Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dahlia Lithwick talks to Justice Ginsburg about her time at Harvard Law School--and about her fellow female classmates.
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Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part Two
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and two of her classmates discuss their lives from Harvard Law School through today.
30 min
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Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part One
Who were the nine other women in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Harvard Law Class? The justice remembers them all.
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Coming Soon
Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG
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Roberts vs. Trump
As the Supreme Court term comes to a close, the chief justice shows his political acuity.
50 min
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What’s Left of Roe v. Wade?
Exploring the division of opinion in June Medical Services LLC v Russo.
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Blockbusters: DACA and Title VII
Dissecting two huge decisions in one Supreme Court week.
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Race, Police, and The Law
Where is the justice and what is this Justice Department?
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Immunity, Impunity, and Justice by the Numbers
The financial records cases, who’s getting cut off on the all-new SCOTUS call-in show, and why the law is for suckers.
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